Old Maps of Bermuda by Grace Galleries of Harpswell Maine

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CARIB301 - BRITISH ADMIRALTY �Bermuda. Grassy Bay From Admiralty Surveys to 1926 with corrections to 1963.� London. 1959 (1967.) Colored. 19�X26. Chart shows Ireland Island with building block plans & North and South Basin. Depicts the Great Sound, Dundonald Channel and Spanish Point. Locates rocks and hundreds of depth soundings in fathoms in the Bay and includes detailed courses and bearings and cautions for navigators. Excellent detail. Chart #1074.		$125
CARIB302 - BRITISH ADMIRALTY �North Atlantic Ocean. Bermuda Islands. Five Fathom Hole, the Narrows and Murrays Anchorage compiled from Admiralty Surveys to 1959 and from surveys by the United States Engineers to 1943 with corrections to 1962.� London 1948 (1967.) 26X39. Handsome chart shows St. George's Island & harbour, Ferry Reach, St. David's Island & Kindley Field. Hamilton Island. Five Fathom Hole & Sea Venture Shoals. Castle Harbour & Harrington Sound. Includes hundreds of depth soundings in fathoms & includes lists of cautions for navigators. Chart has 3 compass roses and very detailed courses and bearings. Chart #868.		$135
CARIB303 - BRITISH ADMIRALTY �North Atlantic Ocean. Bermuda Islands. St. George's Harbour with the Narrows and Murray's Anchorage from Admiralty Surveys to 1937 with additions & corrections to 1959.� London. 1960 (1967.) Colored. 26X39. Fine large chart of St. George's Island with it's harbour. Town Cut Channel, Mullet Bay & Ferry Reach. Includes Smith's and Paget's Islands & the northern part of St. David's Island. Locates Murray's Anchorage, the Narrows, Sea Venture shoals & channel and includes street block plan of St. George's Town & depicts hundreds of depth soundings in fathoms & detailed courses and bearings. A fine chart Chart #1315.		$125
CARIB304 - BRITISH ADMIRALTY �North Atlantic Ocean. Bermuda Islands. Hamilton Island. Hamilton Harbour surveyed by Capt. H. P. Douglas, CMG. RN & Officers of H. M. Surveying Ship �Mutine��. 1923. London 1926. with corrections to 1963. Colored. 26X33. Fine harbour chart shows street block plan of Hamilton with wharves and anchorages. Depicts Warwick and Paget with the Belmont Manor Hotel. The Bermudiana Hotel is located near Hamilton and both hotels are noted as being �conspicuous� to navigators. Also locates Marshall Is. & Godet or Hinson Is. and White Island in the harbour. Includes very detailed courses and bearings, tidal information and hundreds of depth soundings in fathoms are depicted throughtout sea areas. Chart #1073.		$125
CARIB305 - BRITISH ADMIRALTY �North Atlantic Ocean. Bermuda Islands. North and South Channels. Approaches to Grassy Bay and Ireland Island. Compiled from Admiralty Surveys to 1937.� London. 1948 with corrections to 1967. Colored. 39X26. Chart shows The Crescent, North Channel, Murray's Anchorage, Brackish Pond Flats, Grassy Bay, Ireland Island, Dundonald Channel, Spanish Point, Hamilton Island, Harrington Sound, the South Channel and the town of Hamilton with the Fort. Hundreds of depth soundings dot the region and chart includes detailed courses and bearings and cautions for navigators. Chart #867.		$125
CARIB306 - BRITISH ADMIRALTY �Bermuda Islands. Ireland Island. North and South Basins surveyed by Capt. H. P. Douglas C.M.G. RN. H.M.S. �Mutine�. 1921-1922. with additions and corrections to 1960.� London. 1951 (1967.) Colored. 18X19 - image area on a large sheet 26X19. Very detailed chart of the island with large block plans of buildings. Depicts Moresby's Plain with Recreational Ground, Admiralty Berthing area, water catchments, boat shed with slip, the Main Gate, Clock Tower & North and South Basins with breakwaters. Includes hundreds of depth soundings in fathoms, courses and bearings. Excellent detail. Chart #335		$125
CARIB307 - J. N. BELLIN �Carte Des Isles Bermudes ou de Sommer.� Paris. 1768. Colored. 8X13. Very attractive map of the island of Bermuda or Summer Islands, shows Cantons, bays, St. Georges Island with its forts, the harbor of Southampton and a block plan of Hamilton. Depicts harbors, shoals, rocks around shorelines and includes a large compass rose in center with radiating rhumb lines. A decorative title cartouche is engraved in top center with shell, scroll and leaf motifs in the French 18th century rococo style, so typical of the designs employed by Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) on his charts. A fine and scarce chart from �Description Geographique Des Debouquemens qui sont au Nord de L'Isle De Saint Domingue.�		$1,850
CARIB145 - G. L. LE ROUGE �La Jamaique aux Anglois dans le Golfe du Mexique. A. Paris. Chez Sr. Le Rouge 1740� and �La Bermude aux Anglois� Paris 1746-48. Colored. 8X10�. Two early maps of British Possessions in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, are drawn on one sheet. The island of Jamaica is depicted with Parishes in different colors with block plans of dwellings colored red. Port Royal, Jamaica's capital is depicted with its harbor and anchorages & cotton, cocoa and sugar plantations are indicated with icons. The map of Bermuda is colored green with adjacent islands in yellow and the Parishes of Sandy, Somerset, Southampton, Warwick, Paget, Penbrock, Devon, Smith's Lands, Tucakers and Hamilton are named as well as Harington Baye with small islands colored in red. These two fine early maps were published in �Introduction A La Geographie Par Le Sieur Le Rouge, Ingenieur Geographe du Roy.� Lieut. George Louis Le Rouge (c.1712-1790) was born in Hanover, Germany becoming an Army Lieutenant before establishing himself in Paris as a publisher, compiler and editor of maps in c. 1740. His output of books, maps and translations was prodigious and earned him the title of Geographer Royal to the King. Two colorful and attractive maps.		$1,200
CARIB112 - J. B. HOMANN �Insulae Bermudes.� Nurnberg 1731-37. Colored. 5X11. Attractive map of Bermuda by a prominent Nurnberg cartographer/engraver, Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724) shows the Tribes and Shires in different colors and locates The Great Sound, Southampton Harbour, St. George's Island, Warwick and Paget's Tribes, Southamptonshire, Harington Sound, Ireland and Somerset Islands and includes a colorful compass rose with fleur-de-lys pointer and depicts the locations of 5 major forts on the northeast coast of the Island. This colorful map was published in �Grosser Atlas Uber Die Gantzewelt� in Nurnberg, when that City was at the height of it's fame as a center for engraving and printing on copper plates using handmade rag paper and was issued by Homann's Heirs who took over his business after his death in 1724.		$1,200
CARIB219 - G. CRAM �Bermuda Islands.� Chicago. 1890. Colored. 10X13. Colorful map shows Gr Pembroke, Devonshire, Smith, Hamilton & St. Georges Counties, to Castle assy Bay, Great Sound, Somerset, Southampton, Warwick, Paget, Harbor, and St. George's and St. David's Islands with Harrington or Little Sound. Depicts many harbors around the coasts and the Channel to Hamilton Harbor leading from Great Sound along the coast to Murray Anchorage, Tobacco Rock and Fort Catherine's Point. In 1887-1890 when this map was published the population of Bermuda was listed as 15,500 and the population of Hamilton was 1,854. Published in Cram's �Unrivalled Atlas of the World� by Henry Stebbins this is an attractive map of the Bermuda Islands.		$265
CARIB248 - ROYAL GAZETTE �Driving & Cycling Road Map of the Bermuda Island. Specially Compiled for the Royal Gazette.� Hamilton, Bermuda. 1902. Hand colored. 9�X25�. This great map of Bermuda shows all it's parishes, towns, villages, & harbors, prepared for the Royal Gazette in Hamilton, for driving & cycling on the Island. Depicts all the roads with their surface conditions e.g. Best, Good, Poor, Private, Ordinary Grade, Steep Grade & Very Steep Grade dangerous for Wheeling. In the center of the map is a street block plan of the City of Hamilton drawn within a circle, that depicts Steamer Wharfs, the Ferry to Paget, the U.S. Consulate, the Cable Office & commercial & public buildings. This is the 3rd Edition of the map revised & corrected in 1902 & is in very nice condition, with some light age-toning in the top left square only.		$1,200

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